Lucius's POV I raised my hand in anger to her approaching figure and she stopped with an awkward smile."My love," she stuttered."I am not your love and I will never be Jolynn. What the hell are you even doing here?" I hissed, my wolf pushing to the surface as it growled in front of her."Doing your job, Alpha Lucius!" A deep voice suddenly filled the courtyard.I turned around to find her father, walking toward us with confident strides."What are you talking about?" I gawked at him.At the back of my mind, I knew that Lucas and I had practically abandoned the pack to rule itself for a long while. But I never gave her the job —if at all she did it."The guards are watching. The council is inside, who knows they might have spies everywhere. Let's walk my King," he said as he got closer.I felt cornered.As much as I wanted to ignore him and just burst through the conference doors, I couldn't do it.I could feel the glares of the guards around us and somehow, I believed the old gamma
Lucius's POVThe room fell silent and it was amusing watching them mull over the word but never getting an understanding of it.Alpha Keith let out a sigh and sat down once again. "In other words, what the Alpha King is saying is that the news is false."I gave him a curt nod and he smirked."But if that is true, what was he doing with the girl?" Alpha Faustus, the fastest man in the room asked."Why did they take so many pictures?""Does he now work for Humans?"The room erupted with questions as every alpha wanted to say something —anything to pin me down.I raised my hand, causing them to seal their lips and I explained."My son, Owen, is sick." I started slowly letting my words sink into their heads. "His doctor advised that I get a permanent figure in his life for the time being. It turns out the human girl is exceptional when it comes to children..."They were all staring at me now, wide eyes and eager to hear all I had to say."What I did was just an act to seal the contract be
Diane's POVWhen we returned to the room back in Hawaii, I wasn't surprised that Lucius wasn't there. Lucas gave a vague explanation but I didn't care. When we finally got back from our trip, I couldn't help but feel uneasy. I didn't want to but I couldn't help it. I was starting to fear that something might have happened to him but the moment he stepped into the house, my anger returned.His silly excuse for an apology didn't work either. What could he make up for? The fact that he left without saying anything? Or the fucking fact that he had a girlfriend named Jolynn?!My heart was burning with anger and I just hated myself over and over for agreeing to this sick deal. Not even that, I went too far in that vacation and I have no one to blame but myself."Mummy?"Owen's sweet little voice pulled me out of my thoughts and I turned to look at him.He was tucked into his bed and holding out a book for me to read to him. His small frame was so cute that it was so easy for me to smile an
Diane's POVMy heart almost tore open as her words hit me. My eyes moved down to the bags in her hand and back to her face.I stepped away from the door and hugged myself. "Lucius," I called, not knowing what to say.I didn't know what to feel or what to think. My mind just went blank completely and I was left like a porcelain doll. I just stood by the door, watching as Jolynn carried her bag into the house even before Lucius could join me."What the hell are you doing here?" He roared at her.She pushed her bleached hair away from her face and smiled. "Come on my love, help me settle in before you begin to ask so many questions. Is she the maid?" She asked, pointing a finger in my direction."Are you crazy? Jolynn have you fucking lost your mind?!" He yelled. "That is my wife you are talking to...""Oh, but that is not what you told the council a while ago..." Lucius froze.Lucius looked at me and then at her. He looked confused if that was the right word to use. His expression was
Diane's POVWithout waiting for her response I turned away and moved out of the kitchen at once with anger flaring inside of me.I longer had an appetite and all I wanted to do was launch the oatmeal on someone but I held it all in.With my eyes completely clouded with anger, I ran into a wall."Shit!" I hissed as my balance on the bowl loosened and it slipped to the floor, the ceramic plate shattering on impact."I am so sorry." His voice filled the space between us, and that was when I realized that it wasn't a wall I had run into, it was Lucius.My anger seemed to shift away from the fake blonde in the kitchen to the man in front of me.Ignoring him, I bent down and started picking the pieces of the bowl."Leave it, let me do that," Lucius said, joining me on the floor.I blinked, my anger increasing to a higher level as I felt his fingers brush over mine."Stop it, Lucius!" I yelled, glaring at him.His eyes looked hurt but I didn't care. I knew his game and I knew what he was cap
Lucius's POVI took the phone from Jolynn and walked out of the room at once, my wolf already boiling with disappointment at my failure to defend our mate."Alpha Kasper, why are you calling?" I hissed."Oh, I didn't call. Jolynn did and she said you wanted to speak to me..." He responded on the phone and then it occurred to me that it was all a part of her game.I sharply turned back to the room, my patience completely exhausted."I am sorry for the disturbance, Alpha Kasper. Jolynn must have made a mistake," I said and ended the call before he could even respond.With red eyes, I moved back to the room and met the room thick with tension as the two women glared at one another."Oh, you are back. What did he say?" She chirped innocently like she wasn't aware of the damage she was causing.Not wanting to explode in front of Diane, I grabbed Jolynn by the arm and led her out of the room roughly."Have you lost your mind?" I hissed, pushing her against the wall.She smiled and bathed he
Diane's POV"So she lives here now?" Sophie asked as we sat at the pool, enjoying the sun on our skin."Well, apparently, she does and there is nothing I can do about it!" I puffed, wishing I could just turn back time and return to the moment I had accepted to work for Redskin in the first place.This way, I wouldn't have met Owen and Lucius wouldn't have asked me to marry him.I wouldn't be in the dilemma I was in right now."And Lucius hasn't said anything?" Sophie's voice slowly took up a higher pitch as she kept glaring at me with disbelief dancing in her eyes.I rolled my eyes and relaxed further into the outdoor chairs we were sprawled on. I couldn't go into the pool because of my injury but I insisted on coming out here because I knew this was the only place we could have a civil conversation without being interrupted by Barbie."Hold on, she lives here. Lucius is quiet and you have folded your arms and done nothing?" Her eyes moved over my body in fast movements before she sto
Diane's POVThe cut on my leg was pretty much healed and I could move around in my room properly without leaning or heaving with pain, but I still called Lucius for everything especially when Jolynn was around.She had come to the house with a purpose, now I was going to destroy that purpose."Why do you have such an evil look on your face? Who are you planning to murder?" Lucas's voice sliced through my mind and I looked up at him."Is it that obvious?"He chuckled and brought the plate of fried finger food he was eating to the couch where I sat."Let me guess, it's Jolynn, right?" He asked, wiggling his brows.I let out a sigh and nodded. "I have realized she is trouble you know... And I now feel bad that I had given Lucius such a hard time."He passed his hand around my shoulder and shook me slightly. "Lucius is fine. Well, he will be when you guys talk about it and I have just the perfect plan in my head."My brows knitted together and I glared at him. His plans were always crazy.
Diane’s POVI felt something within me shift and before I could stop myself, I threw myself against Scarred-face, screaming my lungs out.“Let my baby go!” I screamed.In my mind, I was so sure that I would manage to create enough distractions to take Owen from them and run as far as I could, but all those moves were only in my head. I didn’t even get far before Liam grabbed me roughly by the arm.“Where do you think you are going? The party is just starting…” he growled and threw me hard towards the bed. My head hit the bedframe and I felt my consciousness dwindle before my eyes.I blinked, panicking even stronger. If anything happened to me now, I wouldn’t be able to protect Owen anymore. I would fail once again in protecting my baby.“Mummy!” Owen screamed and I tried to raise myself from the ground despite the dizziness in my head.I refused to give up. My body was groaning in defeat, but I would rather die. Adrenaline pumped through my bloodstreams, and I dragged myself back to m
Diane’s POVAs soon as Liam stepped out of the room, I saw it as my opportunity to escape from his room. I returned my shirt to their position and moved out at once. I still remembered the route we had taken while coming, so I traced it back to my room.I was about to take the final bend when I heard a deafening growl from a room on my right. The blood within my body froze and panic started drumming through my skin.They said anyone who knew could be rescued, so I let my curiosity lead me to the side of the wall where I could get a good angle to see what was happening in that room.“No!” the roar echoed out of the room once again. “Keith can’t die like that!” he screamed again, and I watched as Liam held his head and dropped to the ground with tears in his eyes.“My lord, I saw the body with my two eyes. Lucius had made sure there would be no regeneration for him. He is dead-” a man covered in a hood was saying.I covered my mouth as the realization of what this meant flooded through
Lucius’s POV“Are you sure we are heading in the right direction?” I asked Monique for the third time since we have been on the road. I noticed that we had been going around the same places for close to two hours now and she just sat there with a smug look on her face, watching me as I drove as if I was a new show in a cinema.“Monique? Didn’t you hear me?” I asked, throwing a glance in her direction. She was now sitting with her legs spread apart and the skirt barely visible anymore.“Hmmm, yeah… yes, of course… just keep going…” she said, waving her hand to the screen while her eyes remained on me.My wolf twisted with disgust at her position. If she couldn’t sit properly, she shouldn’t have worn such an absurd outfit. I wanted to reprimand her to adjust herself, but I decided to ignore it. She was not my responsibility.“I don’t know if you have noticed but we have been going round the same place for hours now. Can you look at the road and tell me where we are supposed to go?” I a
Diane’s POVI planned on convincing Louis to help us escape but after hearing that Liam and Keith had his family, I couldn’t bring myself to say anymore. I would do anything to save my family, so I understood exactly where he stood in all of these.In the next couple of hours, I tried to remain positive as I studied every inch of the room, we were kept in, hoping that a miraculous door would appear from nowhere and I could step out of it.I even took my time to think about my decisions, wondering if things could have been different if I had acted in another way. I was stuck on a roller coaster of emotions till sleep managed to steal me.But even the sleep didn’t give me the rest of mind I needed. I kept seeing horrible endings to our situation that soon turned into a nightmare. The worst of them was when I saw Liam kill Owen. I was going to die first before I let anything happen to Owen.By the time my eyes opened, they went straight to Owen and I only relaxed after I saw that he was
Lucius’s POVIt was already in the early hours of the morning when I got to Macy’s house. As usual, as soon as I parked the vehicle in their driveway, I noticed the move of the curtain and I was suddenly reminded of Fred’s death.At some point after all of this was over, I would have to inform her of what had happened to her brave husband.My heart was heavy with sadness, but I swallowed it back. If I slacked now, her husband wouldn’t be the only bad news I would be giving her.I got out of the vehicle and this time Lucas stepped down with me. Together we went to her front door and just a few feet before we got to it, the door opened, and it wasn’t who I was expecting.“Where is Diane?” Sophie’s firm voice rang out around the area like she had a microphone buried in her throat.“Something came up and she… can I come in, there is a lot I have to explain to you,” I said. My voice was heavy with emotions, and I hoped she didn’t aggravate things.She studied me for a second before her sha
Lucius’s POVWith Keith dead, I left the captain of my soldiers and Kasper in charge, and I took one of the cars back to the human city to get the answers I needed.There was still a lot to be done, but I knew that I could trust my men to do a very good job of clearing everything and sorting what needed to be sorted.As I drove, my eyes were fixed on the road, but my heart ached for Diane. She was going to be broken when she found out about her grandfather but more than that, I needed to get her before Liam decided to do something crazy.Each moment I spent in that vehicle increased the number of questions rolling through my head and by the time I got to Bucks quarters, I practically jumped out of the moving vehicle.Lucas who had already been notified was standing at the entrance waiting for me and the moment he saw me, he ran towards me and hugged me. A rare moment where we shared our bond as brothers and as much as I wanted to just push him away and proceed inside, I could understa
Lucius’s POVThe sound of clashing bodies and screams filled the area in seconds. Just like I had thought, this was more intense than what we had done at Keith’s pack. The ninja wolves were far more trained than the guards’ Keith’s pack.My men were starting to struggle. Each time one of theirs fell, two of mine fell. If things continued at this pace, we were going to lose.I tore through the bodies of soldiers and tried to make my way into the castle where I knew that Keith would be waiting. He had planned this very well; he knew that it was going to take a lot more to bring him down with the ninja wolves on his side, but I refused to give up.I tapped into my alpha abilities and skillfully cut through them, but they were like ants. If two fell another four appeared and I knew that I had to strategize again if I was going to beat them, or they would change the narrative of the fields. We had come to capture their ruler but if we weren’t careful, they were going to end up capturing me
Lucius’s POVI marched toward the tent where Fred was being kept with a boiling heart filled with rage.I felt so stupid. The signs had always been there from the very beginning, and I failed to recognize them or maybe I was just too blinded to see them.From the very first day I met him, I recognized the strange scent of him. When he gave me that cock and bull story about his pack, I knew there was something about it that didn’t entirely add up, but I chose to believe it.And then it didn’t stop there, when the council had arrested him suspecting him to be Patrick, I had the feeling that they were on to something. My council might have been cowards, but they were not entirely stupid. Something must have led them to Fred’s doorstep, and I had closed my eyes to that possibility.Fast forward to the day I went to tell him about his freedom, he had been on the phone speaking about something strange. Yet again, I let it slide. He even had the guts to call me and give me intel like he was
Diane’s POV“You have lost your mind, Liam!” I hissed shaking my head in disgust and disbelief. If he really thought that after everything, he did to me I would belittle myself to the point of sleeping with him then he must have truly lost his mind.He threw his head back and let out an irritating laughter before stopping to look deeply into my eyes. “Do not worry. We have all the time in the world. Lucius is Keith’s reward, while you are mine. No one is going to stop me,” he said and got on his feet.I felt the blood in my body scatter and my heart started beating at a dangerously fast pace, but I kept my cool. Owen was also staring with a glint of fear in his eyes, and I held him tight. I was ready to protect him with my entire life.“Louis please, take them inside. Let her freshen up,” he said to the traitor who had sold me out and then his evil eyes turned to me, “When I need her, I will call for her. I hope you are smart enough to take this moment to relax that beautiful body of